Oh no oh no oh no no no no!

Pushing her disheveled hair from her face, Maisie's face scrunched up and she shrieked in a tone rumored that only cruppies could hear when she saw cobwebs on her hand.

Jumping where she sat when she heard the voice of two customers, the shopkeeper tried to spin around on spot and whacked her elbows into the stand she had just knocked over.

"Pardon zee cobwebs," she whispered, her cheeks flushed, as the young man helped her to her feet. "Je vais bien. I am fine."

CHOCOLATE!

Back on her feet now - mostly, she was still wobbly in her heels - her eyes flew to the shelves that also had cobwebs strung about here and there.

"Oh no! Ze chocolat!" She spun around this time, nearly twisting her ankle in the process, and pleaded at the two with her eyes. "Can you two 'elp me? No mattar 'hat I do zey just keep coming back!"